Social Networking

How powerful would it be to reach 100's of would be employers all at once? No, not a blind email blast or a cold calling marathon. The best and honestly the easiest way is to use one of the social networking sites. Whether you twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook or My Space, these are all great tools to reach hiring employers. How you may ask can you reach all of these people if the only people that you're socializing with are your friends and business acquaintances that you've already contaced. One word...."groups". Every social networking site has groups. These can be groups of former employees like the AT&T or IBM Alumni sites on LinkedIn or similar groups on Twitter, Facebook, etc. You can search for groups within your field or groups of former employers. Either way, these groups give you an opportunity to post you resume to hundreds or even thousands of potential employers without encountering a spam filter or the wrath of 100 HR managers that you just blanketed with you resume.

Social networking is the holy grail of this decade. Use it. In fact once you have found a job somewhere you can use it to build business relationships with potential customers.

If you're interested in learning how to use groups, feel free to post your questions to this blog.

David Goldenberg